{"id":6760,"date":"2015-07-28T00:05:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:26:23","slug":"the-proof-is-in-the-pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/07\/28\/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proof is in the Pudding"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, \u201cSon, your sins are forgiven.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tNow some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, \u201cWhy does this fellow talk like that? He\u2019s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tImmediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, \u201cWhy are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, \u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Get up, take your mat and walk\u2019? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins\u2026.\u201d He said to the paralytic, \u201cI tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.\u201d He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, \u201cWe have never seen anything like this!\u201d (Mark 2:1-12)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\t\u201cThe proof is in the pudding\u201d is a shortened form of the old proverb that \u201cthe proof of a pudding is in the eating of it.\u201d The proof of Jesus was in the healing of the man. <\/p>\n

\tTo open a hole in the roof of a house in ancient Israel was not as labor intensive as opening a hole in a modern roof. But it was still destructive, messy, and noisy. Bits of roof material would have fallen on Jesus and those around him. <\/p>\n

\tWhen Jesus told the paralyzed man that his sins were forgiven, the teachers of the law thought that Jesus was guilty of blasphemy. Obviously it\u2019s pretty easy to tell someone their sins are forgiven. The forgiven person doesn\u2019t change color or shape. Forgiving sins, though the easiest to say, was the hardest to do in fact. Jesus demonstrated by the visible healing, that he had the power to do the invisible healing. People got well all the time. But sins being forgiven? The teachers of the law were right. Only God could do that. And Jesus still has the power to forgive our sins. That was his whole reason for coming to us.<\/p>\n

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